University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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was finished, and an addition made to Person Hall, the Chemical Building, and other laboratories fitted up. The Law School has been greatly enlarged and last year numbered sixty-six students. A Medical department has been added and a dissecting room erected. The Library room in Smith Hall has been fitted with alcoves and the libraries of the two Societies have been consolidated with that of the L niversitv. New Professorships have been added from time to time. In fine, the University ranks with the best. It has a flourishing Summer School for Teachers, one of Law, one of Geology, and one of Biology. It has a Scientific Society (the Mitchell), a Historical Society, a Shakespeare Club, a Philological Club, a C lee Club, and an Athletic Association.

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When the Ci il War began nearly all of the students and one-third of the F ' aculty olunteered in defence of the South. Out of the ninety-five Freshmen of i857- ' 8 only ten remained to graduate; out of the eighty of the Freshmen of 1 858- ' 9 only one ; out of the sixty-eight Freshmen of 1 859- ' 60 only five. Still the Faculty under great privations kept the doors open until Kilpatrick ' s Cavalry in April 1865, rode into Chapel Hill. Although the endowment was lost, the doors were reopened in the summer of 1865 but the salaries of the professors not being paid, some of the ablest obtained work elsewhere and the number of students in i867- ' 8 w as only ninety-two. When the State government was reconstructed in July, 1868, the old Trustees were turned out of office, and the new set appointed under the constitution of that year vacated all the chairs. President Swain died the 27th of August, in consequence of being thrown from his buggy by a runaway horse. In the spring of 1869 the doors were again opened under a Faculty of which Rev. Dr. Solomon Pool was President. The experiment did not succeed, and in 1870 the exercises were suspended. In 1875 a new Board of Trustees, chosen by the General Assembly under an amendment to the constitution, elected a new Faculty, Rev. Dr. Charles Phillips being Chairman, and again invited students. The Secretary and Treasurer, Kemp P. Battle, succeeded in raising $20,000 mainly from the Alumni for the repair of the buildings, which was done under the superintendence of Mr. Paul C. Cameron. In 1S76 Dr. Battle was induced to accept the Presidency. In 1881 was procured from the General Assembly an annual appropriation of $5000, which added to $7500 a year interest on the Land Grant enabled the institution to expand to some extent. In 1885 was procured $15,000 a year in addition, but the succeeding General Assembly founded the Agricultural and Mechanical College, at Raleigh, and transferred to it the interest on the Land Grant, leaving the University $20,000 per annum, in addition to tuition and interest on endowment funds about $5000. In 1890, the History Chair was endowed with about $33,000 by Alumni and others, and Dr. Battle, being wearied with fifteen years of active executive duties resigned the Presidency and was unanimously elected Professor of History. Dr. George Tayloe Winston was the same year, 1891, with similar unanimity, made President. From 1877 to 1885 there were held by Uni ersity authorities Summer Normal Schools, attracting from three hundred and fifty to four hundred teachers and those preparing to teach. In 1885 Memorial Hall was dedicated ; in 1887 the Gymnasium

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Hmumil nf If 04 iaroHiia. ESTABLISHED I793. Urustees. Gov. Elias Carr, Ex-officio, President. Hon. J. C. Scarborough, Ex-officio. Richard H. Battle, Secretary and Treasurer. A. B. Andrews, Richard H. Battle, Julian S. Carr, C. B. Aycock, A. D. Belts, W. H. S. Buro-wyn, Chas. A. Cook, Jno. D. Currie, W. S. Black, D.D. C. M. Cooke, R. T. Gray, R. A Doughton, T. J. Jarvis, LL.D. K. P. Battle, LL.D Chas R. Thomas, Marsden Bellamy, G. S. Bradshaw, Marion Butler, W. R. Allen, A. B. Andrews, R. H. Battle, Jacob Battle, J. P. Caldwell, Deceased. Executive Committee. Go -. Elias Carr, Chairman, ex-officio. John W. Graham, Thos. S. Kenan, R. H. Lewis, M D , 1895. Geo. Davis, LL.D., W. T. Faircloth, M. H. Holt, Jno. W. Graham, h. a. Gudger, Thos. M. Holt, Wm. Johnston, A. Leazer, W. S. Long, C. D. Mclver, 1897. H. C. Jones, Wallace Riddick, P. D. Gold, Robt. W. Scott, P. L. Murphy, M D , F. S. Spruill, Wm. J. Peele, N. A. Sinclair, Wm. D. Pruden, F. H. Busbee, B. Cameron, Jno. W. Fries, R. M. Furman, Thos. S. Kenan, Julian S. Carr, Wm. H. Day, S. M. Finger, R. D. Gilmer, A. W. Graham, J. L. Stewart, 1899. 1901. R. H. Lewis, M.D. J. A. Mclver, W. N. Nebane, A. H. Merritt, J. D. Murphy, A. W. Haywood, Wm E. Hill, E. Jones, T. A. McNeill, Thos. Mason, C. D. Mclver, J. C. Scarborough, Jas. W. Wilson. H C. McMillan, J. Manning, LL.D. R. B. Peebles, Sol. C. Weill, F D Mnston. I. R. Stravhorn, S. McD. fate, N. J. Rouse. J. W. Todd, M.D., H. D. Williamson. Fred Phillips, J. L. Patterson, Jno W. Starnes, Z.B.Vance,LL.D. Jas, W. Wilson. Paul B. Means, Lee S. Overman, Jas. Parker, D.D. T. H. Pritchard, D G. Worth.